A 100,000-Point Offer That Wasn’t Supposed to Still Be Around
If you’ve been eyeing the Chase Sapphire Preferred but missed its 100,000-point welcome offer, it might be worth a second look before you write it off. According to reporting from The Points Guy published July 31, 2026, multiple Sapphire Preferred referral links are still displaying that expired 100,000-point offer instead of the card’s current, lower welcome bonus.
This isn’t an official promotion — it’s a glitch in how some referral links are pulling offer data, and Chase could correct it at any time. But for families weighing whether to open a new travel card before back-to-school and fall travel season ramps up, it’s a deal worth checking on before it disappears.
Who This Is Best For
- Families planning fall or holiday travel who want to stockpile transferable points for flights or hotels.
- Points-and-miles beginners — Sapphire Preferred is a well-known entry point into the Chase Ultimate Rewards ecosystem, and a bigger bonus means a faster head start toward a free flight.
- Households that already do a lot of dining and travel spending and can reasonably hit a minimum spend requirement without changing normal habits.
It’s not a fit for anyone who’s opened several new cards recently — Chase has strict rules limiting how often you can earn a new-cardmember bonus, so check your own approval history first.
How It Compares
We recently covered the Chase Sapphire Reserve for Business 200K offer for readers weighing the premium end of the Chase lineup. This Sapphire Preferred situation is different: it’s the more accessible, lower-annual-fee card in the family, and this potential 100,000-point bump — if the link still works for you — would be an unusually strong offer relative to what the card normally advertises.
The Catch
Because this is based on a referral-link inconsistency rather than an official Chase promotion, treat it with some caution:
- The offer could revert to the standard bonus at any moment, with no warning.
- Not every referral link is affected — TPG reports it’s happening on “multiple” links, not all of them.
- Always confirm the bonus amount shown on the actual application page before you submit, since referral link previews aren’t guaranteed to match final terms.
Bottom Line
If a new travel rewards card is already on your radar for this year’s trips, it costs nothing to check whether a Sapphire Preferred referral link is showing you the bigger bonus. Just move quickly, verify the offer on the application screen itself, and don’t force it if you’ve hit Chase’s application limits — a 100,000-point head start is great, but only if you actually qualify to earn it.